How radio acts as an education tool to help girls continue learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Key Information

With funding for two education initiatives from DFID’s Girls Education Challenge and from Global Affairs Canada. WUSC works with learners in the Kakuma and Dadaab Refugee Camps and surrounding host communities in Kenya to improve the quality of education while also addressing the social and economic barriers that limit access, in particular for girls and young women. We work with students, teachers, their families, and their communities to create a stronger education ecosystem.

One of the ways in which we engage the community is through radio programming. Together with Africa Voices Foundation, we have been promoting positive social and behavioral change through interactive radio sessions on the value of girls’ education and gender equality. 

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Activity URL

https://wusc.ca/how-radio-acts-as-an-education-tool-to-help-girls-continue-learning-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

Africa Voices Foundation

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Nutrition
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Sexual harassment & coercion
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Fathers, Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other community members - female, Other community members - male, Youth

Age

5 - 16

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Health and childcare services

  • Referrals to health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Educational Radio or Television Programs

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end FGM (not captured above)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Media campaigns
  • Work with community leaders
  • Work with religious leaders

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved maternal, newborn, and/or child health (MNCH)
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased knowledge of rights
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Mary Kwena
World University Service of Canada (WUSC)
Project Manager
mkwena@wusc.ca